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WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH 

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OUR CHILDREN? 



HOW TO FIND THEIR TRUE NATURES, 



AND THE 



BEST WAY TO EDUCATE THEM. 



AP,;* 



CHARLES A. BARRY. 

" Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old 
he will not depart from it." — Proverbs xxii. 6. 




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"And of all systematic divisions of human 
nature into faculties and powers, I think that 
of Phrenology, on the whole, the most con- 
venient. 

" If a man wishes to know what he is fit 
for, and capable of, this gives him a useful 
method of investigation. It divides, for ex- 
ample, all our powers into mental, moral, and 
passional. " — "Self-Culture" by Rev. James 
Freeman Clarke, page 101. 



PREFACE. 



This little book goes from me to thought- 
ful parents in the strong hope that it may- 
prove useful to them in the training of their 
children. 

Many and great difficulties stand in the 
way of conscientious fathers and mothers de- 
siring the well-doing and the -well-being of 
their loved ones ; but the small, safe lamp I 
offer to them in the make-up of this work can 
become in their hands, I am sure, a light of 
great power. 

The subject-matter presented appeared 
originally in the Boston Courier, and this 
present form is published in compliance with 
many wishes expressed for it. 

c. A. B. 



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CHAPTER I. 

" Ah, if our souls but poise and swing 
Like the compass in its brazen ring, 
Ever level and ever true 
To the toil and the task we have to do, 
We shall sail securely, and safely reach 
The Fortunate Isles on whose shining beach 
The sights we see and the sounds we hear 
Will be those of joy, and not of fear." 

The Rev. Phillips Brooks, in one of his 
inspired moments, says : " We cannot help 
rejoicing in the increasing prominence of the 
idea that every being whom the world contains 
has his true place written in the very make 
of his nature, and that to find that place and 
fill it is success for him. To help him find 
that place, and make him fit to fill it, is the 



8 WHAT SHALL WE DO 

duty of his educators in all their various 
degrees." 

I begin by saying to every father and 
mother to whom these preparatory words 
may come, that very powerful influences for 
good or evil stand ready to act upon the life 
of every child newly born upon this planet; 
and I strictly assert that it is the bounden 
duty of parents to make themselves ac- 
quainted with the nature of these influences, 
in order that the bad and dangerous ones 
may be held in check, and the good ones 
helped on in every way. 

When the Countess D'Ossoli (Margaret 
Fuller) took her baby in her arms for the 
first time, she reverently said : " God help 
me. I am the mother of an immortal soul ! " 
And precisely this same invocation ought to 
dwell upon the lips of every woman who 
becomes a mother. 

No two persons, though they be twins, are 
exactly alike either in character or appear- 



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ance ; and it is very certain that every human 
creature is more or less influenced by the 
subtile forces existing outside of the wonder- 
ful ones belonging directly to our visible 
bodies. For instance, there is not a square 
inch of the earth's atmosphere that does not 
contain electricity, not a point in any human 
body that is not an open avenue to its power. 
Equalization of this mighty force in the ner- 
vous system of a boy or girl makes a good 
circulation of the blood and perfect health. 
But let a trifle more moisture than usually 
exists penetrate the common air, and we 
shall soon see that the sensitive nerves of 
our boy or girl do not readily adjust them- 
selves to the changed electrical conditions. 
Mental depression or bodily indisposition of 
some sort almost invariably follows. 

Let it be distinctly and forever understood 
now by the reader, that a newly born child is a 
compend of tremendous forces coming to the 
front over long lines of heredity that may con- 



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demn him to a life of wickedness and crime, 
or lift him up to perpetual holiness, to actual 
saintly life in God. 

Let us suppose a case : A boy child is born 
to a man and woman who knew little or noth- 
ing of each other six months before marriage. 
The two parents are above the average of 
men and women, and the attendant physician 
and nurse have said that the little creature is 
altogether perfect. A beautiful thing to look 
at, no doubt, is the young child; but has 
father or mother given a single thought to 
the all-powerful forces that are biding their 
time in the dear baby till the convenient sea- 
son shall come in which they will make him, 
in a greater or less degree, a thing to be 
moulded as they will ? 

Let us suppose, once more, that the little 
fellow is now ten years of age. Already father 
and mother have seen, as in a mirror, no small 
imitations of themselves. Brother Tom has 
often said to the mother, " Jenny, your boy 



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walks exactly as you do, and acts in many 
ways just as you used to do in the old times'' ; 
while it is easily seen by all the relatives that 
the boy, on the father side of the parentage, 
is truly "a chip of the old block." 

Now, is there any way of finding out the 
trend of the lines of this child's course in life, 
or the make-up of his chest of tools, i. e., of 
the body God has given him to work with ? 
I say without any hesitation that there is a 
way of finding out the tendencies of a child's 
nature, and of learning the true course of ac- 
tion concerning his education. 

To begin with, I should put the boy — say 
a ten-year-old one — in the hands of an expert 
physician for a full examination of all the 
principal organs of his body. Having gone 
through with such an examination, and having 
found that the physical machinery is sound in 
every particular, I should next proceed to get 
the outline of his head in profile. I should 
want to know what his head stands for as a 



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piece of Nature's handiwork, —as the home 
of the master workman of the bodily forces. 

And now concerning the use of such a pro- 
file. First, I draw four horizontal lines, H, 
K, L, M, 

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P .MI I h i ■! ■ I l l I I I llll ■ — M^* "* " 



K 



H « 

A' 




JB 



JJ LCI Oram 1. 

equally distant apart, placing in the middle 
space a drawing- of the ear. At the point 



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marked S, I make two indefinite dotted lines, 
vertical and horizontal, marking them A, B. 
The diagram (1) is now ready for my study of 
the boy's head. 



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JDtcLtfraTn X 



Starting at S, and going up the dotted line 
A (having placed forehead, nose, mouth, and 



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chin iii position, — nose and ear in good 
heads being in the same space), I look to 
see if the top line of the head is at C I, 
C 2, or C 3 ; or, in other words, how far 
the top of the head is from the opening 
of the ear. If C I is the top line, it is, in 
nine cases out of ten, continued to C 4, on 
dotted line B. Heads of prize fighters and 
bad men generally are as is represented by 
the dotted line C 1, C 4, — C 1 indicating 
small mental faculties ; C 4, large animal 
propensities. That is to say, the higher or 
spiritual regions of the brain are to be found 
at a particular distance above the opening of 
the ear, as at C 2, C 3, the lower or ani- 
mal ones reaching out behind the ear, as at 
C 4, on the dotted line B in the diagram. 
To illustrate : the greatest height above the 
ears in a human head can be seen in two 
marble portrait busts in the Boston Athe- 
naeum, faithful drawings of which are here 
given. 



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A wonderful head it is, this first one, that 
of Sir Walter Scott, the renowned author of 




the Waverley novels. No less wonderful is 
this second one, that of our great American, 
Daniel Webster : — 



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In striking contrast now come the follow- 
ing sketches taken from perfect phrenological 
busts of Williams (r) and Bishop (2), English 
murderers, executed in London in 1832. 
These show the greatest distance behind 
the ears. 



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The head of Williams is by far the worse ; 
the upper or spiritual region being very low, 
the part behind the ear immense. 

Another law of construction is quickly 
noticed. If the head of the boy under exam- 
ination is high above the ear, say as at C 2 in 
the diagram, the distance behind the ear will 
almost certainly end at C E on the dotted 
line B (diagram 2); that is, the line of the 
head will be drawn inward toward the ear. 

The location of the ear in the head is most 
important in an investigation. If it as a 
whole, opening and all, drops far below the 
horizontal line L, touching the bottom of the 
nose, it indicates a stubborn will, an ugly 
temper, and bad tendencies. 

Look well at these two heads now intro- 
duced. First, to this one of Ferdinand Ward 



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(notice the position of the ear), the cunning 
robber of the Grant family, now, I believe, in 



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a State prison ; and then at this one, repre- 
senting the dangerous wild-beast type found 
in any one of our great cities. Apply the 




horizontal line test to this head, and see 
where the ear will be located, starting the 
first line to be drawn at the eyebrow, the 
second one at the bottom of the nose. 



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Beyond this simple plan of briefly determin- 
ing character and traits or propensities, the 
proper course to pursue is next to have made 
a phrenological chart in detail of the boy's 
head by an expert phrenologist. 

Let me say here to parents and children 
that it is a most blessed thing to be well born, 
to have such an organization, physical and 
mental, at the start in the great race of life, 
as will give some limit of safety from the 
perils and evils of this sin-possessed earth — 
so far as one can have any safety under the 
unvarying laws of God. A good current of 
ancestral blood, with reliable brain and nerve 
power, a strong conscience, and a will that 
can be depended upon in every degree of 
responsibility, are things to be devoutly 
prayed for. Diseased appetites and perverted 
passions take little notice of the laws of God 
or man, though it is written — blazing, a 
burning fire — in all languages, that the way 
of the criminal transgressor is hard. In- 



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herited weakness of any kind, especially the 
weakness that allows sin under a weak power 
of discerning between good and evil, is a sad 
state of things indeed, and should lead good 
men to look with pity upon all so afflicted. 
When George Whitefield, the renowned 
preacher, saw a murderer led by his window, 
he said, " There goes George Whitefield, but 
for the grace of God." So should we fortunate 
ones, looking at the criminal classes, say, 
There are we all, but for the grace of God. 
I have recommended parents to have phren- 
ological charts made of the heads of their 
children, showing the natural language of the 
propensities, faculties, and moral sentiments, 
and now make use of the following state- 
ment once made by Horace Mann, the great 
Massachusetts educator: "I look upon phre- 
nology as the guide to philosophy and the 
handmaid of Christianity. Whoever dissemi- 
nates true phrenology is a public benefactor. ,, 



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CHAPTER II. 

It is the object of the writer now to show 
that some of the most potent powers of the 
inner or spiritual world of unknown forces 
rise to meet every boy and girl starting out 
upon the great pilgrimage of mortal life. 
Each one of our loved ones joins the vast 
army of bread-winners more or less handi- 
capped. He must do so, for Mother Earth 
bears nowhere upon her ample bosom one 
perfect human creature. Even the highest 
among the hosts of noble men and women, 
who have lived and died upon our planet, 
struggled on their way to higher life often 
against great opposition, wrestling often with 
strife, torture, poverty, the ills of prison, 
popular odium, disease even, in its most 
appalling shapes. 

Before the physical and mental constitu- 



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tion of a boy or girl can be thoroughly- 
studied, an understanding of the great law 
of Temperament is necessary, as all states of 
the body affect the brain. Temperament, as 
applied to human beings, has reference to 
the arrangement of the physical portions of 
the body. It is classed as the motive, or 
mechanical ; the vital, or nutritive ; the 
mental, or nervous ; each class being deter- 
mined by the predominance in the body of 
the organs from which it derives its. name. 

Comparing one child with another, it is 
quickly noticed that one is short, another 
tall; one light, another dark; one slender and 
weak, another muscular and strong ; that one 
is constantly moving about, and that another 
is quiet and not easily excited. We are led 
to apply these conditions to fixed physical 
states, called, in combination, the tempera- 
ment. 

Let it be understood then that the pre- 
dominance of either one of the three grand 



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types already named, determines the special 
quality of both the child mind and the adult 
mind. A nervous boy or girl is always a 




bright child, having a decided tendency to 
study, loving beautiful things, and disliking 
thoroughly those that are coarse or com- 
mon. 



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Such a child, boy or girl, is hard to man- 
age by the use of any of the well-known 
methods of compulsion, but is quick to re- 
spond to gentle words or loving looks, unless 
some poison is at work among the delicate 
threads of the nervous system, or some un- 
seen overpowering influence is prevailing in 
the environment. In this connection, let it 
be well understood by parents that the will 
of a child is hardly ever to be calculated 
upon as a power in self-government. It is 
always weak in the children of the weak, and 
but a trifle stronger in the children of the 
strong. Never irritate a nervous child, and 
be assured that whipping one beyond the 
giving of a slight touch or two with a small 
switch, is not a safe mode of proceeding. 
You had better not try to believe that you 
can get sweeter music out of a delicate mu- 
sical instrument by striking its sensitive 
strings with a hammer. 

But a boy with a head similar to the one 



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here shown, inclining strongly to the animal 
side of life, will give in to the heavy lash and 
bitter words, or appear to do so. But the time 




will be very likely to come when the brute in 
him will defy such coercion, when what little 
love he has in him for father and mother 
will turn to deadly hate, when he will easily 



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enter into the way whose end is a prison or 
the hangman's rope. 

Between these two types a large number 
of children are to be found to whom corporal 
punishment of not too harsh a kind seems 
absolutely necessary at times ; but it should 
be dispensed with as soon as possible — just 
as soon as the child feels that minding 
through love of father and mother is better 
than obedience gi\ r en through fear. 

I advise as the next step to having a 
phrenological chart made, the examination 
of a child's temperament by an experienced 
physiologist ; and since every good physician 
is a good physiologist, such an examination 
is not hard to obtain. It cannot be less 
than very clear to all thoughtful parents, it 
seems to me, that before education of any 
kind is attempted, the educator should know 
the kind of material he is to work upon. A 
sculptor searches with great care for a cer- 
tain kind of clay upon which he is to labor 



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for many months, with skilful fingers and 
delicate modelling tools, to make his model 
for some beautiful statue. Given a good 
physical body, good ancestral traits, a relia- 
ble temperament (temperaments, by the way, 
are more or less mixed in human beings), 
the gift by nature of the obedient spirit, a 
good power of self-control, then only the 
diseases and dangers of common life, with 
the mysterious powers of the inner world of 
invisible forces, stand in the way of the edu- 
cator. 

And now concerning what is called the 
sensitive state in human beings. Sensitive- 
ness, or the condition of being affected by 
unseen agencies, is the heritage of all, 
although it is manifested in a great degree 
by only a few individuals. It can be posi- 
tively said that nineteen twentieths of our 
children are simply vibratory strings for good 
and instructive influences or troublesome and 
dangerous ones (their name is legion) to play 



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upon. In no other way than by the law 
of magnetic influence can the superhuman 
achievements of children and grown-up per- 
sons be accounted for. Mozart, Handel, 
Pope, Zerah Colburn, Pascal, Blind Tom, 
Rachel, were as children wonderful sensitives. 
Towering above the great men of the world, 
Napoleon under his fearful nerve-storms, 
Swedenborg in his London street wanderings, 
Abraham Lincoln in his lofty spiritual out- 
reachings, Stanley in his superhuman victo- 
ries over bodily ills and over the fierce anger 
of black barbarians, the dangers and pesti- 
lences of African forests, stand to mankind 
as sensitives of the highest degree. Take 
the case of Thomas A. Edison, for instance, 
with his marvellously sensitive nature, and 
believe for just a moment that Benjamin 
Franklin is (as he always in this life said he 
was) a human spirit destined for eternal life. 
Can there be any reasonable doubt of his 
ability as an immortal spirit to act upon so 



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small an affair to him as Edison's brain ? In 
this connection, I am particularly moved to 
say that there are other spheres of life beyond 
this one, and that thousands upon thousands 
of human spirits pass from our life to another 
state of being, with all their worst passions 
ripe for new energies. Death of the physical 
body makes no change of character ; evil is 
still evil, and good is still to be sought for. 
Consider this, then, dear parents of innocent 
children, — ■ sensitives, all of them, — and 
learn to prepare them early to resist evil and 
to desire good. 

" There are more things in heaven and 
earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your 
philosophy/' 



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Now, to sum it all up, our duty to our 
children. First, it is an unfortunate child 
who has to be governed and educated by such 
a mother or teacher as this head represents. 




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But a child having a father or teacher 
with this type of brain or face is fortunate 
beyond telling. 




Let us see to it, then, that we start our 
children in this journey of mortal life so that 
they may have the opportunity to make good 



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men and women. We should acquaint them 
early with their own valuable powers of body 
and mind, and with their shortcomings, 
mostly the result of inheritance, sparing no 
expense of time or money to fit them for the 
places in this visible world that nature in- 
tends them to fill, and for holy entrance into 
the higher life. With good phrenological 
charts of their brain powers to guide us, and 
a complete understanding of their tempera- 
ments, preliminary to the adoption of a wise 
educational course, our work will be compar- 
atively easy and the burden light. It will 
be found that one child is fitted for one 
thing, the next for another, and there will be 
some who will seem to be able to do many 
things well and easily. 

Above all other sciences, phrenology shows 
the natural tendencies, tastes, and capacities 
of a child's organization, and enables us to 
decide what pursuit is best for him. It 
warns us continually not to put circular pegs 



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in square holes, i. e. y not to attempt to make 
engineers and physicians of boys who have 
natural leanings to the pulpit and the stage. 
Finally, let us not dare to accomplish any- 
thing in a child's behalf in the way of train- 
ing and education until we have sought the 
divine help of God through his ministering 
angels. 



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Biogen: The Origin or Life. — At the last meeting of the 
riiilosophical Society, Dr. Coues delivered an address in response 
to an invitation to favor the society with his views on the origin 
and nature of life. The speaker came out in entire opposition to 
any mechanical theory of the universe, and any materialistic view 
of life. . . . The address was a closely woven piece of logic, quietly, 
but impressively, delivered. — The Post (Washington), May 11, 1882. 

Few American ornithologists can rival Dr. Coues in his experiences 
of nature, and probably none can equal him in fertility of the pen. — 
The Athenaeum (London), Sept. 9, 1882. 

Work in a fresh field from such an accomplished author is one 
which all who know Dr. Coues's previous writings cannot hesitate 
to welcome. The fertility of the writer's pen really seems amazing. 
— The Zoologist (London), October, 1882. 

His famous lecture on " The Daemon of Darwin." — This remark- 
able prose poem is a most exquisite conception, the argument of 
which begins with the death of Darwin, his burial at Westminster 
Abbey, his descent into hell, where he witnesses the transformation 
of matter from Moner to Man, and the evolution of the soul. — The 
National Republican, Nov. 15, 1882. 

The Daemon of Darwin. — It was dramatic, graphic, and forcible, 
poetry and philosophy intermingled. The imaginary dialogue be- 
tween Socrates and Darwin, in which ancient and modern science 
was discussed, was most beautiful. . . . Everything in life was satis- 
factorily proven by Dr. Coues to be under the direct supervision of 
a Superior Being. . . . The lecturer held his audience spell-bound 
for more than an hour, and was greatly applauded. — The National 



It is refreshing to find that everything is not so solemn, and finished 
and " grown up," in this world of ours, that wit and originality are 
not unknown quantities in the problem of human existence, and the 
most delightful realization of this is Dr. Coues's lecture on " The 
Daemon of Darwin." It is unique and clever to the highest degree. 

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and so cunningly written and happily communicated that one can 
hardly snatch a moment from its engrossing interest, and subtle and 
charming wit, to wonder how so infinite riches can be crowded in 
so little room. As a literary effort, the lecture is a success. — The 
Capital (Washington), Dec. 3, 1882. 

Biogen: A Speculation on the Origin and Nature op 
Life. By Prof. Elliott Coues, Member of the National Academy 
of Sciences. — This is a brief but masterly treatise on the origin of 
life in opposition to the prevalent materialism of the day. It meets 
the materialist on his own ground, though reaching up to a refine- 
ment of matter not readily recognized by observers of merely 
external phenomena. The work is highly recommended by those 
competent to judge who have read it. — Herald and Presbyter, 
April 23, 1884. 

Prof. Coues is a scientist, and as such is devoting his time and 
talents to psychical investigation in his own way, by such methods 
and along such lines as his genius inspires, his experience commends, 
and bis time permits. . . . Those who know Prof. Coues's views more 
in detail should read his interesting and wonderfully suggestive 
little book, entitled " Biogen." — Religio -Philosophical Journal, 
Jan. 24, 1885. 

A Buddhist Catechism. — A most admirable exposition of the 
Buddhist faith; clearer than any elaborate essay, and not only mak- 
ing it possible to understand exactly what Buddhism is, but leaving 
it impossible not to understand what it is. In the form of question 
and answer, every possible feature of the faith is brought up in 
turn, with a brevity, a clearness, and a conciseness which cannot 
be too highly commended.— The Critic (New York), Aug. 15, 1885. 

A Buddhist Catechism. . . . — But whatever judgment the 
thoughtful reader may pass on Buddhism, exoteric or esoteric, it is 
convenient to have that philosophy — for it declines to be called a 
religion — condensed into a compact, clear, and readable shape, and 
this Col. Olcott has done. The same exposition of Buddhism may 
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expressed. The copious and weighty notes of Prof. Elliott Coues, 
one of America's distinguished men of science, and one of her most 
learned and eloquent wi iters, add value to the American edition. — 
Lloyd P. Smith, in The American (Philadelphia), Aug. 29, 1885. 

London, June 17, 1886. 
As No. 5 of the Biogen Series, Prof. Coues has reprinted 
Robert Dodsley's " (Economy of Human Life," which he considers 
is based on theosophical ethics. The history of this little treatise is 
rather curious. It was originally published in 1750, and purported 
to be by a Brahmin, but the authorship was generally attributed to 
Lord Chesterfield. . . . The association of the name " Kuthurai " 
with the book, so perplexing to understand, is not a biographical 
fact, as Prof. Coues explains in his " foreword " (page 10). . . . 
Prof. Coues is deserving of praise for rescuing from oblivion a 
book in many ways calculated to do good. 

Mohini-M. Chatterji. 

A Woman in the Case. — (Special despatch to the Globe-Demo- 
crat. Washington, D. C, April 27.) — The resignation of Dr. Coues 
as lecturer on Anatomy in the National Medical College of this city 
has caused a great stir in professional and ecclesiastical circles. In 
an address delivered a few weeks since on the occasion of the sixty- 
fifth annual Commencement of the college, the doctor made a sharp 
attack upon the religious creeds of the day. In advocating the rights 
of women to enter the paths of progress, the doctor declared that 
religious intolerance, scientific insolence, and social tyranny were 
the three great stumbling-blocks to woman's progress. 

The Biogen Serifs. — This series of publications is under the 
editorial management of Prof. Coues, the well-known scientist and 
theosophist. The series has just reached its fifth number, "Kuthumi; 
or, The (Economy of Human Life." This is a reprint of a little 
volume originally issued in 1770, but, under the classical pen of 
Prof. Coues, who has added an'introduction, and the faultless typog- 
raphy of Estes & Lauriat, the little book is a very different affair 
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out of press, bears the significant title, "Can Matter Think?" 
These little books are, in short, classics, and, as such, substantial 
additions to the literature of the age, while their bearing on the great 
problems of theosophy can hardly be over-estimated. Prof. Coues's 
familiarity with the whole field of modern research, his exactness, 
which comes from scientific training, his remarkable command of 
first-class English, and his insight into the complex problems cf 
psychology, place these books in the forefront of theosophic liter- 
ature. — J. D. Buck, in The Path, August, 1886. 

A "Woman in the Case. — Prof. Elliott Coues was selected to 
deliver the address at the annual Commencement of the National 
Medical College, in Washington, March 16, 1887. It is usual, on such 
occasions, for the orator to please his audience with well-rounded 
periods, high-sounding, orotund, and ancient in style, if there lurks 
a thought in the phraseology which is framed to say nothing. Prof. 
Coues determined on an innovation, and the determination shook 
down the pillars of the college, and now it is an open question 
whether he or the part that is left is the college. . . . The address 
is a brave and noble protest against the shams and pretence of 
religion, which has been the tyrant over woman from the beginning 
of time, under one form or another. The medical profession is noted 
for sceptism and free-thought. If a college seeks to thrust out all 
free thinkers and fill the chairs with those who place creed first and 
scientific excellence second, it will soon lose its character and in- 
fluence. As a matter of policy, Prof. Coues might have been less 
plain, but, standing on the heights, his light gave no uncertain flash. 
He called the attention of the world, and what he said was so trans- 
parently true that none can dispute. Being right, he will prevail in 
the full measure of his lightness. — Hudson Tuttle, in Religio- 
Philosophical Journal (Chicago), May 21, 1887. 



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THE BIOGEN SERIES 

Consists of concise Essays on Live Questions of the 
day or of historical research in Religion, Science, and 
Philosophy, prepared by writers of the most eminent 
ability. Under the editorial direction of Dr. Elliott 
Coues. Published from time to time. A new volume 
just added. 

No. 1. " BIOGEN." A Speculation on the Origin and Nature 
of Life. By Dr. Coues. Now in its Sixth Edition. 

No. 2. " THE IXEMON OF DARWIN." By the author 
of "Biogen." Now in its Third Edition. 

No. 3. "A BUDDHIST CATECHISM." By H. S. Olcott. 
With Notes by Elliott Coues. Third American Edition. 

No. 4. "CAN MATTER THINK?" By an Occultist. 
"With Introduction and Appendix by Coues. A New Edition. 

No. 5. " KUTHUMI." The True and Complete Economy of 
Human Life. A new Edition. Rewritten and Prefaced by Elliott 
Coues. 

No. 6. "A WOMAN IN THE CASE." By Prof. Coues. 
Washington, 1887. Second Edition. Now first added to the Biogen 
Series, with a new Introduction by Elisabeth Cavazza. 

Price of the above volumes, 50 cents each. 

THE OCCULT PUBLISHING COMPANY, 

66 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. 



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